Essay: Notre Dame reopens in Paris five years after fire – its reconstruction preserves the past and illuminates France’s modern ambitions
IRIT KLEIMAN, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at how the tension between preserving the past and building the future has defined the cathedral…
On the Screen: Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ doesn’t bring us much closer to the man behind the facade
DAVID ADAMS watches the new Ridley Scott epic, ‘Napoleon’…
In France’s overseas territories, Napoleon’s legacy has a more troublesome side
Reunion Island, France Reuters When France commemorates the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death on 5th May, Aurelie Ramassamy will remember a tyrant who reversed the abolition of slavery rather than an emperor often lionised as a hero for his battlefield triumphs. Like most Creoles on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, one of France’s overseas departments, Ramassamy […]